ADHRB Weekly Newsletter #358
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** HRC 44: ADHRB’s Written Submission on Bahrain during United Nation Human Rights Council
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Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) submitted the following written statements for the record during the 44^th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The statements addressed several ongoing systematic human rights violations and concerns.

1- Culture of Impunity in Bahrain, please click here ([link removed]) to view the full statement

2- Death Penalty in Bahrain, please click here ([link removed]) to view the full statement

3- Political Prisoners in Bahrain, please click here ([link removed]) to view the full statement

4- Systematic Attack on Freedom of Expression in Bahrain, please click here ([link removed]) to view the full statement

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** Profile in Persecution
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Ali Hammad Ali Hammad Ahmed
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Ali was deprived from completing his last high school year in the Industrial School in AL-Muharraq, and from playing his favorite game and hobby “Handball”. In 2015, Ali was arrested without a warrant. He endured many human rights violations; he was interrogated without a lawyer, convicted in an unfair trial, and was subjected to torture in order to coerce a confession. Today he remains in the Jau Central Prison.

On 18 September 2015, police forces, directorate officers and masked individuals raided an apartment in A’ali Village where Ali was hiding and arrested him without presenting any warrant. Ali was fleeing the police because he was wanted by the authorities for several security cases and was convicted in absentia to a life sentence, based on the confession of Ali’s friend who was arrested before him and who, under torture, told the forces about Ali’s whereabouts. Ali’s house was previously raided multiple times by security forces, trying to find and arrest Ali, for inspection, or to summon Ali’s father for investigation to threaten him in order to ask Ali to turn himself in.

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** ADHRB at the UN
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** HRC 44: ADHRB’s Written Submission on Kuwait during United Nation Human Rights Council
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Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) submitted the following written statement for the record during the 44th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The statements addressed migrant workers’ rights violations in Kuwait.

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** HRC 44: ADHRB’s Written Submission on Saudi Arabia during United Nation Human Rights Council
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Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) submitted the following written statements for the record during the 44^th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The statements addressed several ongoing systematic human rights violations and concerns.

1- Death Penalty in Saudi Arabia, please click here ([link removed]) to view the full statement

2- Imprisonment of Women Human Rights Defenders in Saudi Arabia, please click here ([link removed]) to view the full statement
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** Around the Gulf
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** Dispatch on German Arm Sales to the Gulf Region
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Official databases show that Germany is one of the largest arms exporters in the world. The arms export industry is a major economic driver of the German economy, peaking in 2015 amounting to just under €8 billion a year turnover.

On the surface, Germany’s rhetoric appears to try and avoid its arms exports being used directly or indirectly in armed conflicts that infringe upon human rights and international humanitarian law. Yet in practice, the country is unwilling to implement its own arms sales restrictions enacted in relation to atrocities taking place in Yemen. In fact, research carried out by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, as well as newspapers such as DW indicate that German arms have continued to surface in the bloody conflict.

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** GCC in the Wire
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** - Iran hold annual Gulf drill amid rising tension with US (Reuters) ([link removed])
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Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards launched a military drill in the Gulf on Tuesday, Iranian state television reported, at a time of high tension between Tehran and Washington.


** - Yemeni blogger jailed by Saudi court for supporting equal gay rights: group (Reuters) ([link removed])
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A Saudi court has sentenced a Yemeni blogger to 10 months in prison, a fine of 10,000 riyals ($2,600) and deportation for a social media post supporting equal rights for people in same sex relationships, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).


-U.N. still waiting for Houthi approval to visit decaying oil tanker off Yemen (Reuters) ([link removed])

The United Nations said on Tuesday it was still waiting for Yemen’s Houthi group to authorize deployment of an assessment team to a decaying oil tanker that is threatening to spill 1.1 million barrels of crude oil off the war-torn country’s coast.


- U.A.E. Becomes First Arab Nation to Open a Nuclear Power Plant (New York Times) ([link removed])

The United Arab Emirates became the first Arab country to open a nuclear power plant on Saturday, raising concerns about the long-term consequences of introducing more nuclear programs to the Middle East.



- 2 Mideast countries have highest confirmed virus rates (AP) ([link removed])

The small, neighboring sheikhdoms of Bahrain and Qatar appear to have among world’s highest per capita rates of confirmed coronavirus infections, a result of extensive testing and rapid, undetected spread through camps housing healthy and young foreign laborers, studies now show.

- US flies Kuwait emir, 91, to Minnesota after surgery at home (AP) ([link removed])

Kuwait’s 91-year-old ruling emir landed on Thursday in the United States after being flown across the world in a U.S. Air Force C-17 flying hospital, and just days after undergoing an unspecified surgery at home. The dramatic airlift reflected the close ties between the two nations but also raised concerns over the ruler’s medical condition.


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